Violin



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

SEWALL SHORT, OF NEW LONDON, CONNECTICUT.

VIOLIN.

Specification of Letters Patent No. 10,867, dated May 2, 1854.

T 0 all 'whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, SEWALL SHORT, of

N ew London, in the county of New London and State of Connecticut, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Violins, `Which is Also Applicable to other Instruments of the Same Character, and of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the annexed drawing, making part of this specification.

The nature of my invention consists in uniting or combining a metallic horn or trumpet with a violin, violincello, bass viol, or instrument of a similar character, by which means the vibrations of the latter are greatly increased and the tone and power of the instruments much improved.

To enable those skilled in the art to make and use my invention I will proceed to describe the method which I have adopted of carrying it out.

A is a violin of ordinary construction; B, the bell of the horn or trumpet; C, its tube which is secured to the violin at D at the point where the neck is usually attached, the tube of the horn opening into the interior of the violin, a hole being made in the hoop E -for the purpose. The form of the tube is made to correspond as nearly as may be with that of the neck of the violin as at present constructed that it may not appear strange in the hands of the performer.

At a point corresponding to the position of the head in the ordinary viol a wooden head a is secured to the bell of the horn by means of the metallic straps c, (Z, or otherwise. In this head the pins 7), are made to work in the ordinary manner.

The linger board .F is attached to the tube of the horn in any appropriate manner and in its usual position with regard to the instrument.

By means of this modification tones are produced upon instruments of this description superior to anything attained before.

That I claim as my invention and desire to secure by Letters Patent is- The application of a trumpet or horn to violins, bass vio-ls, and other similar inst-ruments in the manner described and for the purpose setforth.

SEVALL SHORT. Witnesses JOHN S. CLow, SAM. COOPER. 

